Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March 1985, the apartment building at 547 Riverside Drive where Schwartz had lived since 1964 was severly damaged by a fire, leaving a dozen apartments in the building's north wing uninhabitable. And it left several tenant families--including her own--without a roof over their heads...
...TENANTS NEVER really won. They lost most of their possessions and two years of their lives. Half of their building became a dormitory. All they gained was frustation, anxiety and unsavory memories. But their story is not told cynically. Rather, We Are Talking About Homes is a lesson about the human costs of corporate decision-making. There is no happy ending; the insensitive, big bully escapes unscathed, and the tenants only win back their housing after a long struggle. As one tenant says...
...Cambridge tenant, Turk says there is an overemphasis upon commercial development and a lack of interest in building new affordable housing in the city; he wants to strengthen rent control...
While Sullivan has widespread support from the city's tenant constituency, he lacks a strong neighborhood base and has traditionally relied on student votes. In the last election he was the eighth candidate elected, and student votes almost certainly provided the winning margin. Giving David Sullivan your number one vote and supporting the rent control slate is the best thing a Harvard student can do for Cambridge tomorrow...
When one vacancy occurs in its multi-tenant houses, Harvard has been offering them for sale first to the faculty, then to the current tenants, and finally to the general public. However, because the houses are offered at speculative prices, they are largely innaccessible to faculty and tenants. Only three of the ten houses sold to date were purchased by faculty members; moreover, one already owns another house and another resold the property almost immediately at a substantial profit...